Acknowledgements
vii
Message to Teachers - Welcome ix
I
Eye To Eye With The Private Eye 1
An
Invitation 3
Visiting Other Worlds 5
II
Process and Tools 11-32
III
The Interdisciplinary Mind: close-up 33-66
IV
Gathering Your Materials 67-78
V
Curriculum Tour 79-207
Featuring:
Writing
and Language Arts Tour 100-121
Includes
teacher-designed lesson plans,
with 50 lesson ticklers
Art
Tour 122-138
Includes
teacher-designed lesson plans,
with 40+ lesson ticklers
Science
Tour 139-171
Includes
teacher-designed lesson plans,
with 75+ lesson ticklers
Math
Tour 172-194
Includes
teacher-designed lesson plans,
with 30+ lesson ticklers
Social
Sciences and Multicultural Tour 195-207
Includes
teacher-designed lesson plans,
with 20+ lesson ticklers
VI
Assessment of The Private Eye 208
Includes
a 21-day Study, and Teacher Survey
Selected
Reference 222
Index 224
Illustration Credits 229
Take
a sneak peek inside the book...
"On
a hot summer day, ten years ago, I'd been thinking about
the enormous power of the metaphor mind, the mind that
sees the world but through the lens and network of analogy.
The doors of my studio were open and bees sometimes swept
in and began banging their heads against the skylight.
The bamboo outside was rustling like taffeta skirts and
it was an altogether lovely day to be thinking. I glanced
at my clay alligator on a shelf and there, next to it,
was a jeweler's loupe. It was a dusty loupe, unused. A
friend had given it to me years back. I remembered how
he'd shown me seed pods that he kept in a box. Strange
and exotic seed pods. So I'd bought myself a jeweler's
loupe and kept it out - in case I should find some marvelous
old seed pod beauty. Some of his seed pods were from Africa...
and I guess I was waiting, without quite knowing it, for
something that special, from that faraway, to come along
to look at with my loupe. I never thought to look at the
weeds and seeds sprouting in my own yard back then... though,
had I known... Africa, Asia, Latin America, and hundreds
of other unexplored worlds, were right out my door, and
in my very room! Years had passed. The loupe
sat. But, on this particular day, in July 1988, I was about
to make a discovery..."
from: The
Private Eye - (5X) Looking/Thinking by Analogy (Ruef
,2003, 1998, 1992)
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